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included substantial parts of Huayna Capac’s estate and that Titu Cusi’s son stood to inherit in a marriage to Beatriz—had already been divided up among the Spanish citizens of Cuzco at the time the grant was made. For more on the fate of Huayna Capac’s estate, see Susan Niles,
The Shape of Inca History: Narrative and Architecture in an Andean Empire
(Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999), 121–153.
    19 . For a discussion of the Andean oral traditions surrounding this scene, see Regina Harrison,
Signs, Songs, and Memory in the Andes: Translating Quechua Language and Culture
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989); also Jesús Lara,
La poesía quechua
(Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1979), 92; and Nathan Wachtel,
The Vision of the Vanquished: The Spanish Conquest of Peru through Indian Eyes, 1530–1570,
trans. Ben and Siân Reynolds (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1977), 35. On Andean oral traditions more generally see also Margot Beyersdorff, and Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, eds.,
Andean Oral Traditions: Discourse and Literature/Tradiciones Orales Andinas: Discurso y Literatura
(Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien, 1994).
    20 . Because of the multiple and culturally diverse agencies involved in the production of this text, Alessandra Luiselli has written of the “mestizo discursivity” of Titu Cusi’s text (“Introducción,” in
Instrucción del Inca don Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui
, ed. Alessandra Luiselli [Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2001], 17); onthe question of translation, see also Gustavo Verdesio, “Traducción y contrato en la obra de Titu Cusi Yupanqui,”
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
LXXII (1995): 403–412.
    21 . Andrien,
Andean Worlds,
106. On cultural contact and conflict in colonial Peru, see also Susan Elizabeth Ramírez,
The World Upside Down: Cross-Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Peru
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996).
    22 . See Roberto González Echevarría, “Humanismo, Retórica y las Crónicas de la Conquista,” in
Isla a su Vuelo Fugitiva. Ensayos Criticos sobre Literatura Hispanoamericana
(Madrid: José Porrúa Turanzas, S. A. 1983), 9–26; also ibid.,
Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
    23 . Walter Mignolo, “El Métatexto Historiográfico y la Historiografía Indiana,”
MLN
96:2 (1981): 389; see also ibid., “Cartas, crónicas y relaciones del descubrimiento y la conquista, in
Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana; época colonial,
ed. Luis Iñigo Madrigal (Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 1982), 57–116.
    24 . For a discussion of this controversy, see Catherine Julien,
Reading Inca History
(Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000), 6–9.
    25 . See Guillermo Lohmann Villena, “El Inka Titu Cusi Yupanqui y su entrevista con el oidor Matienzo (1565)”
Mercurio Peruano
66 (1941): 4.
    26 . Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, “History of the Incas,” in Sir Clements Markham, ed.,
History of the Incas by Sarmiento de Gamboa and The Execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru by Captain Baltasar de Ocampo, trans. and ed. by Sir Clements Markham
(London: Hakluyt Society, 1907), 193. This is repeated during the early seventeenth century by Baltasar de Ocampo, who wrote that Titu Cusi was not “the natural and legitimate Lord of that land (he being a bastard) having no right” (Ocampo, 213).
    27 . See Luis Millones, “Introducción,”
Ynstrucción del Ynga Don Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupangui,
edición facsímil de Luis Millones (Lima, Ediciones El Virrey, 1985), 7. For an extended discussion of these historical inaccuracies, see Carlos Romero, “Biografía de Tito Cusi Yupanqui,” in Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui,
Relación de la Conquista del Perú y hechos del Inca Manco II,
ed.